FILE - In this March 3, 2006 file photo, a memorial for Gina DeJesus, who has been missing since April 2, 2004, rests alongside her house in Cleveland. Cleveland police say DeJesus, one of two women who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago has been found alive in a residential area about two miles (three kilometers) south of downtown. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

"My mom said, 'No,' that I can't go over her house," Arlene Castro told an interviewer for the Fox network television program. "And so I told [DeJesus] that I couldn't. So she said, 'Well, OK, I'll talk to you later.' And she walked."

Gina would have taken the bus home, but she shared part of her bus fare so that Arlene could make the phone call.

That isn't the only connection.

Ariel's son, Ariel "Anthony" Castro reported on the case years ago, the elder Castro reportedly played bass for several bands at a club run by one of DeJesus' relatives, and last summer Pedro Castro appeared on TV after a search for Amanda Berry's body turned up nothing.